Ole Mertz

Research output

Research output per year 1987 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

• 115 Journal article
• 24 Book chapter
• 19 Report
• 7 Report chapter
• 29 More
  • 7 Poster
  • 6 Book
  • 5 Editorial
  • 3 Review
  • 2 Paper
  • 1 Anthology
  • 1 Ph.D. thesis
  • 1 Article in proceedings
  • 1 Conference abstract in proceedings
  • 1 Conference abstract in journal
  • 1 Letter

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2014

  Scenarios on future land changes in the West African Sahel

  Lambin, E., D'haen, S. A. L., Mertz, O., Nielsen, J. Ø. & Rasmussen, K., Jan 2014, In: Geografisk Tidsskrift/Danish Journal of Geography. 114, 1, p. 76-83

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Land management 100%
  • climate change 67%
  • Sahel Region 67%
  • agriculture 66%
  • scenario 58%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Shifting cultivation stability and change: Contrasting pathways of land use and livelihood change in Laos

  Vongvisouk, T., Mertz, O., Tongmanivong, S., Heinimann, A. & Phanvilay, K., Jan 2014, In: Applied Geography. 46, p. 1-10

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Shifting Cultivation 100%
  • cash crop 81%
  • shifting cultivation 79%
  • Laos 76%
  • cash crops 70%
  47 Citations (Scopus)

• Special issue dedicated to Professor Anette Reenberg

  Rasmussen, K. & Mertz, O., Jan 2014, In: Geografisk Tidsskrift/Danish Journal of Geography. 114, 1, p. 1-2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

• Synthesis in land change science: methodological patterns, challenges, and guidelines

  Magliocca, N. R., Rudel, T. K., Verburg, P. H., McConnell, W. J., Mertz, O., Gerstner, K., Heinimann, A. & Ellis, E. C., Feb 2014, In: Regional Environmental Change. 15, 2, p. 211-226

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • science 100%
  • land 85%
  • meta-analysis 37%
  • economics 19%
  • trend 16%
  75 Citations (Scopus)

• Weather, climate, and resource Information should meet the needs of Sahelian pastoralists

  Rasmussen, L. V., Mertz, O., Rasmussen, K., Nieto Solana, H., Ali, A. & Maiga, I., Oct 2014, In: Weather, Climate, and Society. 6, 4, p. 482-494

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • climate 100%
  • weather 88%
  • resource 71%
  • need 68%
  • resources 55%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  1666 Downloads (Pure)
• 2013

  Diversification and adaptation strategies to climate variability: a farm typology for the Sahel

  Zorom, M., Barbier, B., Mertz, O. & Servat, E., Mar 2013, In: Agricultural Systems. 116, p. 7-15 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • farm typology 100%
  • Sahel 81%
  • climate 48%
  • farmers 43%
  • irrigation 15%
  23 Citations (Scopus)

• Improved sampling methods document decline in soil organic carbon stocks and concentrations of permanganate oxidizable carbon after transition from swidden to oil palm cultivation

  Bruun, T. B., Egay, K., Mertz, O. & Magid, J., 2013, In: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 178, p. 127–134 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • carbon stock 100%
  • organic carbon 71%
  • document 70%
  • transition 57%
  • oil 54%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

• Is there a continuing rationale for swidden cultivation in the 21st century?

  van Vliet, N., Mertz, O., Birch-Thomsen, T. & Schmook, B., Feb 2013, In: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 41, 1, p. 1-5 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  30 Citations (Scopus)

• Land system change and food security: towards multi-scale land system solutions

  Verburg, P. H., Mertz, O., Erb, K-H., Haberl, H. & Wu, W., Oct 2013, In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 5, 5, p. 494–502 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • system change 100%
  • food security 86%
  • food 58%
  • land 47%
  • land use 20%
  90 Citations (Scopus)

• Land system science: between global challenges and local realities

  Verburg, P. H., Erb, K-H., Mertz, O. & Espindola, G., Oct 2013, In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 5, 5, p. 433-437 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  • science 100%
  • land 85%
  • global change 31%
  • system change 30%
  • scientific discipline 29%
  127 Citations (Scopus)

• The carbon sequestration potential of tree crop plantations

  Kongsager, R., Napier, J. & Mertz, O., Dec 2013, In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 18, 8, p. 1197-1213 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • carbon sequestration 100%
  • plantation 78%
  • plantations 73%
  • crop 61%
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 55%
  29 Citations (Scopus)

• The last swiddens of Sarawak, Malaysia

  Mertz, O., Egay, K., Bruun, T. B. & Colding, T. S., Feb 2013, In: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 41, 1, p. 109-118 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Sarawak 100%
  • Borneo 76%
  • Elaeis guineensis 75%
  • Malaysia 67%
  • Oil 61%
  24 Citations (Scopus)

• ‘‘Slash and Burn’’ and ‘‘Shifting’’ cultivation systems in forest agriculture frontiers from the Brazilian Amazon

  van Vliet, N., Adams, C., Vieira, I. C. G. & Mertz, O., Dec 2013, In: Society and Natural Resources. 26, 12, p. 1454–1467 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Shifting Cultivation 100%
  • Brazilian Amazon 92%
  • cultivation system 84%
  • shifting cultivation 74%
  • agriculture 47%
  33 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  Carbon outcomes of major land-cover transitions in SE Asia: great uncertainties and REDD+ policy implications

  Ziegler, A. D., Phelps, J., Yuen, J. Q., Webb, E. L., Lawrence, D., Fox, J. M., Bruun, T. B., Leisz, S. J., Ryan, C. M., Dressler, W., Mertz, O., Pascual, U., Padoch, C. & Koh, L. P., Oct 2012, In: Global Change Biology. 18, 10, p. 3087–3099 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • land cover 100%
  • uncertainty 75%
  • Asia 62%
  • carbon 49%
  • transition 47%
  122 Citations (Scopus)

• Changes in shifting cultivation systems on small Pacific islands

  Mertz, O., Birch-Thomsen, T., Elberling, B., Ruzanski, S. G. S. A., Bruun, T. B., Reenberg, A., Fog, B., Egsmose, R. M. R. & Breuning-Madsen, H., Jun 2012, In: Geographical Journal. 178, 2, p. 175-187 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • cultivation system 100%
  • shifting cultivation 88%
  • farming system 29%
  • tropics 24%
  • Melanesia 19%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Climate variability and environmental stress in the Sudan-Sahel zone of West Africa

  Mertz, O., D'haen, S. A. L., Maiga, A., Bouzou Moussa, I., Barbier, B., Diouf, A., Diallo, D., Da, E. D. & Dabi, D., Jun 2012, In: Ambio. 41, 4, p. 380-392 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Sahel 100%
  • environmental stress 86%
  • West Africa 86%
  • Sudan 85%
  • Western Africa 79%
  43 Citations (Scopus)

• New publisher of Geografisk Tidsskrift – Danish Journal of Geography

  Mertz, O., 2012, In: Geografisk Tidsskrift/Danish Journal of Geography. 112, 1, p. 1 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

• The forgotten D: challenges of addressing forest degradation in complex mosaic landscapes under REDD+

  Mertz, O., Müller, D., Sikor, T., Hett, C., Heinimann, A., Castella, J-C., Lestrelin, G., Ryan, C. M., Reay, D. S., Schmidt-Vogt, D., Danielsen, F., Theilade, I., van Noordwijk, M., Verchot, L. V., Burgess, N. D., Berry, N. J., Pham, T. T., Messerli, P., Xu, J., Fensholt, R., & 8 othersHostert, P., Pflugmacher, D., Bruun, T. B., de Neergaard, A., Dons, K., Dewi, S., Rutishauser, E. & Sun, Z., 2012, In: Geografisk Tidsskrift/Danish Journal of Geography. 112, 1, p. 63-76 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • mosaic 100%
  • degradation 67%
  • carbon stock 20%
  • biodiversity 19%
  • livelihood 18%
  64 Citations (Scopus)

• Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: a global assessment

  van Vliet, N., Mertz, O., Heinimann, A., Langanke, T., Pascual, U., Schmook, B., Adams, C., Schmidt-Vogt, D., Messerli, P., Leisz, S., Castella, J-C., Jørgensen, L., Birch-Thomsen, T., Hett, C., Bruun, T. B., Ickowitz, A., Chi Vu, K., Yasuyuki, K., Fox, J., Padoch, C., & 2 othersDressler, W. D. & Ziegler, A. D., 1 May 2012, In: Global Environmental Change. 22, 2, p. 418-429 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • tropical forests 100%
  • tropical forest 94%
  • land use 93%
  • agriculture 79%
  • driver 78%
  327 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  Adaptation strategies and climate vulnerability in the Sudano-Sahelian region of West Africa

  Mertz, O., Mbow, C., Reenberg, A., Genesio, L., Lambin, E. F., D'haen, S. A. L., Zorom, M., Rasmussen, K., Diallo, D., Barbier, B., Bouzou Moussa, I., Diouf, A., Nielsen, J. Ø. & Sandholt, I., Jan 2011, In: Atmospheric Science Letters. 12, 1, p. 104-108

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • adaptation strategy 100%
  • West Africa 94%
  • household 73%
  • vulnerability 72%
  • rural development 51%
  60 Citations (Scopus)

• Challenging the Woodfuel Crisis in West African Woodlands

  Hansfort, S. L. & Mertz, O., Oct 2011, In: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 39, 5, p. 583-595 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • fuelwood 100%
  • Woodland 94%
  • woodlands 75%
  • woodland 71%
  • energy 44%
  19 Citations (Scopus)

• Flådens bidrag til opdagelsesrejser og ekspeditioner gennem 500 år og Kløvedals egen fortælling om Nordkaperen på usædvanlige positioner: (sammenfatning af foredrag afholdt af Troels Kløvedal)

  Mertz, O., Aug 2011, In: Geografisk Orientering. 41, Særnummer, p. 14-16 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication

• Forord - Geografisk Selskab og geografi ved de danske universiteter 2010

  Mertz, O., Aug 2011, In: Geografisk Orientering. 41, Særnummer, p. i 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication

• Geopolitiske aspekter af udviklingen i Mellemøsten: (sammenfatning af foredrag afholdt af Klaus Carsten Pedersen)

  Mertz, O., Aug 2011, In: Geografisk Orientering. 41, Særnummer, p. 3 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication

• Kan REDD redde regnskovene i Sydøstasien? (sammenfatning af foredrag afholdt af Louis V. Verchot)

  Mertz, O., Aug 2011, In: Geografisk Orientering. 41, Særnummer, p. 9-11 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication

• Prospects for climate change on three Polynesian outliers in Solomon Islands: Exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity

  Rasmussen, K., May, W., Birk, T. L. K., Mertz, O. & Mataki, M., 2011, In: Geografisk Tidsskrift. 111, 1, p. 43-57 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • adaptive capacity 100%
  • Melanesia 98%
  • outlier 84%
  • climate change 71%
  • exposure 48%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Rainfall variability and household coping strategies in northern Tanzania: a motivation for district-level strategies

  Trærup, S. L. M. & Mertz, O., Sept 2011, In: Regional Environmental Change. 11, 3, p. 471-481 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • coping strategy 100%
  • household 61%
  • rainfall 46%
  • harvest 33%
  • livelihood 23%
  19 Citations (Scopus)

• Recognizing contemporary roles of swidden agriculture in transforming landscapes of Southeast Asia

  Ziegler, A. D., Fox, J. M., Webb, E. L., Padoch, C., Leisz, S. J., Cramb, R. A., Mertz, O., Bruun, T. B. & Vien, T. D., Aug 2011, In: Conservation Biology. 25, 4, p. 846-848 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  45 Citations (Scopus)

• SLUSE – an innovative fieldbased learning and research approach

  Birch-Thomsen, T., Mertz, O., de Neergaard, A. & Juul, K., 2011, Forskningsbaseret undervisning – realiteter og potentialer: Proceedings fra 10. majkonference i naturvidenskabsdidaktik, København 18-19. maj 2010. Christiansen, F. V., Horst, S., Holm, C. & Laursen, K. B. (eds.). Institut for Naturfagenes Didaktik, Københavns Universitet, p. 141-146 6 p. (IND’s Skriftserie; No. 21/2011).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research

  • land use 100%
  • Denmark 97%
  • research approach 96%
  • promotion 75%
  • management 48%

• Variabilité climatique et dynamique des ressources forestières dans le Sahel

  Translated title of the contribution: Climatic variability and forest resources dynamics in the SahelMbow, C., Diouf, A., Mertz, O., Bouzou-Moussa, I., Maiga, A. & Ka, A., 2011, In: Revue de Géographie du Laboratoire Leidi. 9, 1, p. 44-56 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
• 2010

  Climate factors play a limited role for past adaptation strategies in West Africa

  Mertz, O., Mbow, C., Nielsen, J. Ø., Maiga, A., Diallo, D., Reenberg, A., Diouf, A., Barbier, B., Bouzou Moussa, I., Zorom, M., Ouattara, I. & Dabi, D., Dec 2010, In: Ecology and Society. 15, 4, article 25, p. Article 25 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • adaptation strategy 100%
  • West Africa 94%
  • Western Africa 93%
  • climate 70%
  • crop production 47%
  61 Citations (Scopus)

• Continuity and change: spatiotemporal land use dynamics on Bellona Island, Solomon Islands

  Birch-Thomsen, T., Reenberg, A., Mertz, O. & Fog, B., Mar 2010, In: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 31, 1, p. 27-40

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Melanesia 100%
  • land use 84%
  • continuity 71%
  • farming system 46%
  • tropics 40%
  24 Citations (Scopus)

• Forord

  Translated title of the contribution: The Royal Danish Geographical Society and geography at the universities in 2009: PrefaceMertz, O., Aug 2010, In: Geografisk Orientering. 40, Særnummer, p. i-i 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication

• Les stratégies d’adaptation des ruraux sahéliens à la variabilité climatique: analyse de la diversité

  Translated title of the contribution: Coping strategies of rural Sahel to climate variability: analysis of diversityZorom, M., Barbier, B., Mertz, O. & Zoungrana, T. P., 2010, Global change: Facing Risks and Threats to Water Resources : Proc. of the Sixth World FRIEND Conference, Fez, Morocco, October 2010. Servat, E., Demuth, S., Dezetter, A. & Daniell, T. (eds.). IAHS Press, Vol. 340. p. 286-294 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

  • climate 100%
  • coping 99%
  • Burkina Faso 23%
  • Mali 22%
  • Niger 22%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Researching Pacific island livelihoods: Mobility, natural resource management and nissology

  Egelund Christensen, A. & Mertz, O., Dec 2010, In: Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 51, 3, p. 278-287 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Pacific Islands 100%
  • Natural Resource Management 99%
  • Livelihoods 80%
  • livelihood 73%
  • resource management 73%
  32 Citations (Scopus)

• SLUSE - an innovative fieldbased learning and research approach

  Birch-Thomsen, T., Mertz, O., de Neergaard, T. A. F. & Juul, K., 2010.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › Research

  1162 Downloads (Pure)

• Small island sustainability in the Pacific: introduction to the special issue

  Gough, K., Bayliss-Smith, T., Connell, J. & Mertz, O., Mar 2010, In: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 31, 1, p. 1-9

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  28 Citations (Scopus)

• Sustainable land use in Tikopia: Food production and consumption in an isolated agricultural system

  Mertz, O., Bruun, T. B., Fog, B., Rasmussen, K. & Agergaard, J., Mar 2010, In: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 31, 1, p. 10-26

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • food consumption 100%
  • farming system 88%
  • food production 86%
  • land use 80%
  • food 56%
  31 Citations (Scopus)
• 2009

  Adaptation to climate change in developing countries

  Mertz, O., Halsnæs, K., Olesen, J. E. & Rasmussen, K., 2009, In: Environmental Management (New York). 43, 5, p. 743-752

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Greenhouse Gas 100%
  • Climate change 84%
  • Developing countries 80%
  • developing countries 74%
  • developing world 66%
  237 Citations (Scopus)

• An assessment of trends in the extent of swidden in Southeast Asia

  Schmidt-Vogt, D., Leisz, S. J., Mertz, O., Heinimann, A., Thiha, Messerli, P., Epprecht, M., Pham, V. C., Vu, K. C., Hardiono, M. & Truong, M. D., 2009, In: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 37, 3, p. 269-280

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  97 Citations (Scopus)

• Climate change on three Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands: Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation

  Rasmussen, K., May, W., Birk, T. L., Mataki, M., Mertz, O. & Yee, D., 2009, In: Geografisk Tidsskrift. 109, 1, p. 1-13

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  43 Citations (Scopus)

• Dramatiske ændringer i landbruget i Sydøstasien

  Mertz, O., 2009, In: Geografisk Orientering. 6, p. 25-27

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication

• Editorial

  Mertz, O. & Reenberg, A., 2009, In: Geografisk Tidsskrift. 109, 1, p. iv

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

• Farmers´ perceptions of climate change and agricultural adaptation strategies in rural Sahel

  Mertz, O., Mbow, C., Reenberg, A. & Diouf, A., 2009, In: Environmental Management (New York). 43, 5, p. 804-816

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Sahel 100%
  • Land use 90%
  • adaptation strategy 84%
  • Crops 83%
  • Climate change 82%
  440 Citations (Scopus)

• Geografisk Selskab og geografi ved de danske universiteter 2008: Forord

  Mertz, O., 2009, In: Geografisk Orientering. 6, 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication

• Swidden change in Southeast Asia: understanding causes and consequences

  Mertz, O., Padoch, C., Fox, J., Cramb, R. A., Leisz, S. J., Lam, N. T. & Vien, T. D., 2009, In: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 37, 3, p. 259-264

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  181 Citations (Scopus)

• Trends in shifting cultivation and the REDD mechanism

  Mertz, O., 2009, In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 1, 2, p. 156-160

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • shifting cultivation 100%
  • farm 71%
  • tropics 55%
  • fallow land 55%
  • land tenure 49%
  71 Citations (Scopus)

• Who counts? demography of swidden cultivators in Southeast Asia

  Mertz, O., Leisz, S. J., Heinimann, A., Rerkasem, K., Thiha, Dressler, W., Pham, V. C., Vu, K. C., Schmidt-Vogt, D., Colfer, C. J. P., Epprecht, M. & Padoch, C., 2009, In: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 37, 3, p. 281-289

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  59 Citations (Scopus)
• 2008

  Adaptation of human coping strategies in a small island society in the SW Pacific: 50 years of change in the coupled human-environment system of Bellona, Solomon Islands

  Reenberg, A., Birch-Thomsen, T., Mertz, O., Fog, B. & Christiansen, S., 2008, In: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 36, 6, p. 807-819

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  71 Citations (Scopus)

• A fresh look at shifting cultivation: fallow length an uncertain indicator of productivity

  Mertz, O., Wadley, R. L., Nielsen, U., Bruun, T. B., Colfer, C. J. P., de Neergaard, A., Jepsen, M. R., Martinussen, T., Zhao, Q., Noweg, G. T. & Magid, J., 2008, In: Agricultural Systems. 96, 1-3, p. 75-84 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  64 Citations (Scopus)